Finance
Tuition fees and other financial support are determined by your status as a home, EU or international student. Financial support is only usually available to those that are considered as "home" or "EU" students but it is not guaranteed.
To be considered as a “home” or “EU” student teacher trainees must meet the following criteria:
- They must have been an EU resident for a minimum of three years prior to the start of the teacher training course.
- They must have done something other than study during the three years.
- They must have permanent leave to remain or right of abode.
Anyone that is assessed as not meeting this criterion will be considered as an international student and should contact the International Office at the University to discuss finance.
For comprehensive
and up-to-date information about the financial support available to students
wishing to enter Higher Education, please visit the
Directgov
web site.
Overview
Financial help
at a
glance
Tuition Fees
Tuition fee information for 2012 has not yet been confirmed.
Training Bursary (2012 entry)
A new system of financial incentives for trainees with
good degrees in shortage subjects has been proposed for 2012/13. These are
available to eligible postgraduate trainees on courses in England and the
bursary amount depends on the subject and degree class. From 2012/13
trainees will need to have at least a 2:2 degree to be eligible for a
training bursary.
The table below summarises the government bursaries that will be available
for 2012/13 entry.
|
Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Modern Languages |
Other priority secondary specialisms1 and Primary | General science and non priority secondary specialisms2 | |
| Trainee with a first | £20,000 | £9,000 | £0 |
| 2:1 | £15,0003 | £5,000 | £0 |
| 2:2 | £12,000 | £0 | £0 |
1Art and Design, Design and Technology, English, Geography, History, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Music, Biology, Physical Education, Primary, and Religious Education mainstream post-graduate ITT courses attract £9,000 bursaries for trainees with a first and £5,000 for trainees with a 2:1.
2General science, Business Studies, Citizenship, Health and Social Care, Leisure and Tourism, Psychology ITT courses attract no bursary.
3Physics trainees with a 2:1 or first are able to apply for an
Institute of Physics scholarship. The scholarship is worth £20,000. Trainees
who hold the scholarship will not also be eligible for the standard
Department for Education (DfE) bursary. Physics trainees who are not awarded
the scholarship will continue in 2012/13 to be eligible for the standard
£20,000 bursary for those with a first, and £15,000 bursary for those with a
2:1.
Golden Hellos
Golden Hellos
will not be available to anyone from September 2011.
Independent Students
To be classified as an independent student (i.e. not dependent on your parents) you need to meet the criteria established by the Government. The criteria include:
- The student is aged 25 or over on the first day of the relevant year; or
- The student has been married or is in a civil partnership before the beginning of the relevant year, whether or not the marriage or civil partnership is still subsisting; or
- The student has no parent living; or
- The Secretary of State is satisfied that neither of his parents can be found or that it is not reasonably practicable to get in touch with either of them; or
- The student has communicated with neither of his parents for the period of one year before the beginning of the relevant year or, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, he can demonstrate on other grounds that he is irreconcilably estranged from his parents.
Students who continue from a degree straight through to a PGCE who previously were classified as dependant students will continue to be classified as dependant if they are still under 25 when the programme commences. This will also be the case with students who have taken a two year break from university (or less) and who are still under 25 who were classified as dependent while undertaking their first degree.